Chapter 024: Wrapping the Lotus Heart
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Ah Xiu took the two of them to Lian'er's side again, and just entered the courtyard, he saw Xiao Si playing flowers under the porch, but he didn't see anyone else, and the room was quiet. Xiao Si heard the footsteps, saw Ah Xiu and the others coming in, and hurriedly saluted. Ah Xiu asked, "What about your wife?" What about the girls in this house? Xiao Si smiled and softly let Ah Xiu into the house: "My wife is taking a nap, she should be about to wake up this time, Mrs. go in." The girls went shopping, and they are probably going back soon. β
Nodding, Ah Xiu and Ying'er Suxin entered the hall, asked them to sit down and wait, and entered the bedroom by themselves, but saw Lian'er with her back to the door, her back shaking, as if she was crying. I walked over with doubts, and sure enough, I heard sobs. Ah Xiu hurriedly sat on the edge of the bed and put her hand on Lian'er's back: "What's the matter, why is it crying in a low voice alone?" Talk to me. Seeing that it was Ah Xiu, Lian'er turned over and sat up, wiped the tears on her face and smiled: "Sister is wrong again, He Zeng cried, it was the tears that just woke up." β
"Lian'er is getting older now, the more she is separated from me, her eyes are swollen, her makeup is spent, and she said that she didn't cry, but she didn't coax me?" Ah Xiu shook her head, called in Ying'er and Su Xin, and asked them, "You two are fair, have Mrs. Lian'er ever cried like this?" Su Xin and Ying'er listened to it and took a closer look, and nodded together: "Yes!" Lian'er couldn't, so she had to bury her head.
"Here's how to say it! Now it's getting stuffy? What is there to tell my sister that I still have a belly with you? He thought about it again, "If you don't say it, I'll guess?" Lian'er had no choice but to say: "Huilan took Shizi and the children out to play, I wanted to go, but Huilan said that I had just enough typhoid fever and didn't take me there." My sister was sick, and I couldn't speak, so I was stunned. β
"It's strange, she will go if she goes, and if she doesn't take you, she won't take it, what does it matter, why cry alone, make it so desolate?" Turned back to Ying'er: "Go and tell Xiaosi, come and dress up their wife, we have to go out." Lian'er shook her head and refused: "Sister is good, how can I get out of the house?" Just talk to me. Su Xin gave Xiao Si a look, and Xiao Si nodded and went to fetch water. Ying'er came up and persuaded: "Madame doesn't like to be restrained on weekdays, don't you see the princess dressed up today?" Since our wives are so interested, and you are so flustered, wouldn't it be nice to go together? β
Si'er brought water, Ying'er smiled, pulled Lian'er and walked to the dresser: "My wife has a plain heart to dress up today, can I dress you up now?" Ying'er was originally Lian'er's person, and she was also the most close to Lian'er, so she coaxed her to sit down, and said while holding her hair: "Mrs. Lian'er's hair is the best, black and bright." I haven't combed my wife's hair for a long time, but this time I have to show off well, and I can't be compared to Sister Suxin! β
Ah Xiu listened to her amusement, and also smiled, playing the fourth little four to get busy, and asked Su Xin to move a chair for herself and sit aside and watch. suddenly remembered Rouge, and thought that since Huilan was alienated from Lian'er, he would naturally be more sympathetic to her, so he asked Su Xin to go back and take a box of Rouge. When Lian'er heard Rouge, she said, "What I have is Rouge, don't let Su Xin run away." "It doesn't matter," Ah Xiu let Su Xin go, and said, "This was originally made by your Ying'er girl, and there were just two boxes, and now the person belongs to me, but this thing is divided into one for you, and one box for each of you, which is also fair and reasonable." β
"Yes! The princess really feels sorry for Madame, which makes me embarrassed. If you don't accept it, you will dislike me for having a new master and forget the old master! After Ying'er finished speaking, all three people in the room laughed. After a while, I combed a uniform and beautiful Lingyun bun, opened the gold makeup of the pear blossom wood, selected slightly, and took a pair of cloud-shaped hollow dotted cuitou hairpins, inserted left and right, two tassels of agate swaying, and two begonia silk flowers sprinkled with gold beads in a new look.
"How?" Ying'er asked Lian'er in the mirror. Ah Xiu saw it, nodded and praised: "Ying'er is really skillful, and the comb is no worse than Su Xin!" Su Xin nodded and said, "Yes!" Now I'm also playful, so I'll take care of my lady's makeup! So he took the eyebrow ink and rouge, traced it carefully, and thought about it, and used the rouge to blur two points in Lian'er's Danfeng eyes, and brightened Lian'er's face like the finishing touch.
Su Xin opened the wardrobe and picked out a soft cigarette skirt embroidered with lotus lotus and dark flowers, a placket with lotus blue elastic ink auspicious cloud pattern antique satin, and a pair of smoky gray bow shoes for Lian'er to change. The three of them praised it, and Ah Xiu let people set up a car and went out of the house and went to the street.
A cadre of house slaves escorted the car and arrived at the corner of the street where Ah Xiu often shopped. Ah Xiu and the others got out of the car and entered the silk village. The boss saw that it was the two ladies of the palace, and he was busy greeting and serving. The proprietress took out the manifest for Ah Xiu to choose, Ah Xiu frowned, thought about it, and said with a smile: "It's the first time I've bought these by myself, and it's all names at a glance, so it's inevitable that it will be more difficult to choose." After reading the words, I had to work hard to guess the pattern, and I had to call the guys to move them one by one to take a look. If there are few guests, it may be successful, but if there are too many people, it will be too troublesome. β
The boss smiled bitterly: "Since I have this business, I just try to put the new look as far as possible, and the library in the store has been piled up like this for generations, and there is really nothing I can do!" The proprietress nodded and said, "When the season changes, I just put the good ones out as much as possible, which is already the most labor-saving method." What does the princess probably want to look like, if you think it's troublesome, tell me, I'll let the guys take a few more horses for the princess to choose, and ask the princess to bear with me! β
Ah Xiu remembered the hairdressing chromatography in the hairdresser now, and couldn't help but have an idea, and smiled: "I'll give the boss an idea: cut each batch of cloth into a small piece with a pattern, make a booklet, and neatly classify the cloth heads." For example, satin into a volume, silk, silk, Luo, yarn into a volume, if you want to pick, only need to take the corresponding booklet, take the cloth sample comparison, look at it and then take the cloth to cut, so the selection and matching, isn't it clear at a glance? β
The boss and his wife listened and thought about it for a while, but they didn't understand it and didn't dare to ask deeply. Ah Xiu smiled, asked Lian'er and others to come out, put them together, and compared them, the two suddenly realized, hurriedly thanked them, and ordered the guys to start cutting cloth on the spot. Seeing that they were busy, Ah Xiu thought about it, told SΓΉ to pick out a few good satins first, and then pick them later, and pulled Lian'er to the jewelry store next to her.
At the door, the boss greeted him and hurriedly served the best tea, Ah Xiu thanked him: "A small business, it's already hard, why bother so much to use good tea to entertain guests, next time we come, as long as we drink white water." The boss thanked him a thousand times, and asked the guy to bring the latest hairpin hairpins of the season, while explaining: "This is the best style of the store, although the princess looks at it, if you don't like it, you can think of a pattern and tell me, I will ask someone to do it." β
Ah Xiu picked a spider gold ornament with silk inlaid with jewels, and picked it with Lian'er, chose a silver hairpin in the shape of a phoenix, and asked the boss to change something to introduce. The boss took the order to take a tray covered with red satin and explained to Ah Xiu: "This is a jade bracelet, made of eighteen jade beads and two tourmaline beads, which is connected to the tourmaline Buddha head, and can be worn on the wrist or hung on the buttons of the placket." β
"This is a blue water floating flower jade bracelet, and this bracelet is obtained from a piece of material. There are three treasures of the store, one is this pavilion golden hairpin, which is made by the master with more than a dozen crafts for one year, and it is as exquisite as the real pavilion. The second is that this hundred butterflies golden step shake, is the tassel of sixty-six small colored butterflies under the four large colored butterflies. And then there is this bone-twisted white jade bracelet, two extremely thin white jade bracelets are entwined together, which is carved by the master for 16 months. β
Ah Xiu couldn't help but look straight, these jewelry, even with modern technology, may not be able to be made. Let's say that this white jade bracelet, which is less than five millimeters thin, is twisted together, not to mention carving, even if you accidentally put it on it when you wear it, it is all broken. Butterflies shake step by step, each big butterfly has a small half of the palm of the hand, gathered together just like a ball, the tassel of the small butterfly below, each butterfly is only half a little finger belly size, but they are all wings and tentacles, the most rare is completely hollow, head to tail, no flaw.
Lian'er also looked straight: "Good girl! Boss, you're giving it all you have, it's really the treasure of the town! This craftsmanship can be said to be unparalleled in the world. Ah Xiu came back to his senses and nodded in praise, and the shopkeeper blushed: "If the princess likes it, it is enough to honor the princess, but Xiaomin has a request, and please fulfill it to the princess!" Ah Xiu was stunned: "How can you take such a valuable thing for nothing, we want the original price of jewelry, just say it, I will do my best." β
The shopkeeper blushed: "My wife went early, there is a daughter at home, she is twenty years old this year, she has not yet married, she has good craftsmanship and her vision is not high, just to be filial and refuse to marry." Now that I'm older, people who don't know don't dare to come to propose marriage, thinking that there is something immoral about me and my daughter, and I am very distressed by false rumors, can I ask the princess to find a family affair for my girl? β
When Ah Xiu heard this, she nodded and smiled: "It's hard for the girl to have filial piety, can the store invite the girl out to show me?" When the shopkeeper saw the princess speak, he seemed to have hope, and hurriedly called his daughter out. Ah Xiu took a look at the onion-like beauty embryo, turned her head and asked Lian'er: "Do your two brothers have a wife?" Lian'er blushed: "My two brothers are serving under the prince, but they have never been married, but how can they be worthy of such a handsome daughter's family?" β
"That's it! I sat down with this matchmaker, and in a few days I invited the prince to be the matchmaker himself, and gave his brother-in-law to marry this girl! Ah Xiu smiled. Lian'er and the shopkeeper are very grateful, only Ah Xiu knows that this is a favor from Shunshui, so that they can work together to hold Huilan hostage in the future.